Bachir Attar

   
Artist: Bachir Attar

   Genre(s): 
Folk
   

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Discography:


   
 The Next Dream

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 7

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Inheriting the group's leadership from his father in 1982, Bachir Attar has guided the Master Musicians of Jajouka through matchless of their most fulfilling periods. Under Attar's direction, the mathematical group, which flap novelist William Burroughs called a "4,000 class old tilt & twine band" and web.crittersbuggin.com called the "ancient founding kin of enchantment," has collaborated with international artists including the Rolling Stones, Ornette Coleman, Maceo Parker, Sonic Youth, and the London Symphony Orchestra. Indian composer, DJ, baseball club promoter, and tabla instrumentalist Talvin Singh produced the ensemble's 2000 album Searching for the Passions.


A native of the northern Moroccan foothills of the Rif Mountains, Attar was born to be a musician. Descended from a long cable of government-sanctioned musicians, including the royal tribunal musicians for seven kings prior to the occupation of Monocco by France and Spain, he began perusal percussion at the age of four. Attar was still a minor when the Master Musicians of Jajouka were recorded by the former Brian Jones, shortly before his decease from drowning in 1969. The album The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka was released deuce years later. In addition to his liaison with the Master Musicians of Jajouka, Attar has retained an active calling as a soloist and recording sideman. During frequent trips to Paris, London, and New York, he collaborated with Deborah Harry, Ornette Coleman, Maceo Parker, the Rolling Stones, and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo. A solo record album, The Next Dream, was released in 1992 and was followed by In New York, recorded with influential improviser Elliott Sharp, in 1994.

Pamela Anderson & Tommy Lee Back Together

Pamela Anderson is back together with her first husband Tommy Lee the Baywatch star and the couple's kids moved back in with the rocker.

The Motley Crue star has confirmed reports the pair is giving romance another try after weeks of speculation.

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, he says: "Pamela and the kids have moved in with me. It's awesome, man. It's definitely working. You can tell on the kids' faces - they're happy when we're together.

"We've only given it a try 800 times - 801, here we go."

Since the couple divorced in 1998, Anderson has been married twice - to rocker Kid Rock and Rick Salomon. She has also recently hinted she may get married for a forth time.

Eastwood directs Jolie in 1920s lost child drama

CANNES, France (Reuters) - Clint Eastwood directs Angelina Jolie in a gripping 1920s drama based on the true story of a woman whose search for her missing son forced her to confront the Los Angeles police and a serial child killer.


There was confusion on Tuesday over the name of the movie, one of 22 entries in the main competition at the Cannes film festival this year. It was originally titled "The Changeling" but production notes re-named it "The Exchange".


Based on archives from Los Angeles City Hall that were about to be destroyed until screenwriter J. Michael Straczynski rescued them after a tip off, the story is about working class mother Christine Collins whose nine-year-old son goes missing.


A police force in desperate need of positive publicity says they have found the boy, but when Collins insists the child is not hers she is subjected to a smear campaign and sent to a psychiatric ward for five days.


With the help of a charismatic pastor, played by John Malkovich, Collins goes in search of the truth, exposing corruption and incompetence in the police force along the way.


Separately, a serial child killer is caught, and the two storylines begin to emerge.


"This woman, through her tenacious attitude, brought down the whole police department and the whole political structure -- the mayor was not re-elected," Eastwood said after a press screening, where "The Exchange" was applauded loudly.


"It's a great study on human characteristics, this one mother fighting against the whole city," added the 77-year-old.